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The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 101,000 reports of scams and fraud against people ages 60 and older in 2023, causing seniors to lose over $3.4 billion. And those ...
Elder financial scams are skyrocketing, with suspected fraud against seniors up nearly 50 percent in 2023, according to Thomson Reuters data (and 2022 was already a record year, up 50 percent from ...
"Scams targeting individuals aged 60 and older caused over $3.4 billion in losses in 2023 − an increase of approximately 11% from the year prior," an FBI news release reads. "The average victim ...
Fraud is endemic across the U.S., but seniors are a favorite target of scammers. The FBI’s 2023 Elder Fraud Report says that people over 60 reported more than $3.4 billion in losses to cyber ...
Spokeo warns to watch out for these 10 senior citizen scams that target their hard-earned savings. 1. Romance Scams. Flattery has no expiration date, and many a lonely or bereaved senior has found ...
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
Elder fraud victims in California suffered the most, losing $643 million. Nationwide, scams targeting people 60 and older caused over $3.4 billion in losses in 2023, an increase of about 11% from ...
Elder financial abuse is a type of elder abuse in which misappropriation of financial resources or abusive use of financial control, in the context of a relationship where there is an expectation of trust, causes harm to an older person. The Older Americans Act of 2006 defines elder financial abuse, or financial exploitation, as “the ...